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Your Brain
Each part of your brain receives messages from a different part of your body. A message from your right thumb to your brain starts in the nerve endings in your right thumb, passes to the nerves in your spinal cord, and travels from there to the left side of your brain
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This is illustrated by the "Schoolhouse Rock!" video "Telegraph Line"
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All messages from the right side of your body go to the left side of your brain. And all messages from the left side of your body go to the right side of your brain.
Notice the cerebellum (sehr-uh-BEL-um) in the picture. When a person's cerebellum does not work as it should,
he can hardly walk. All his movements are jerky. The cerebellum automatically takes care of co-ordination. By co-ordination we mean smooth action of muscles.
Look at the cerebrum (SEHR-uh-brum) in the picture of the brain. The cerebrum is the part of the brain concerned with thinking. It is in the cerebrum that messages of sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch are received and decisions as to what the messages mean are made.
Scientists are trying to find out more about the cerebrum. They are trying to map the cerebrum; that is, they are trying to find out which parts of the cerebrum control various activities. For example, they have located the sections of the cerebrum that control sight, speech, and some muscles. Further research will help to make the maps more detailed.
Scientists are also trying to discover how changes in the brain affect the way one behaves. They know that personality seems to be controlled largely in the front section of the brain. It is in this part that mental activities like worrying or being afraid originate.
Scientists have found that it is possible to change a monkey's way of behaving by operating on this front section. First, they observed a group of monkeys and made notes about how they behaved.
Look at the pictures on this page and you will see what the scientists observed.
Dave was the Number 1 monkey and boss of the group. The other monkeys
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| Dave-the boss Zeke-the fighter Herby-quiet Shorty-attacks only Larry Larry-a coward |
"The cool are just bullies with stylists and publicists." Wise words from @GregGutfeld 's new book.— Nick ®yan (@Nick_R_Ryan) April 5, 2014
Our educational resource center has a hand puppet for Herby the quiet monkey - if you don't mess with him - he won't mess with you pic.twitter.com/7CEfB8qEEi— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) April 10, 2018
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